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Development of Enhanced User Interaction and User Experience for Supporting Serious Role-Playing Games in a Healthcare Setting

Alow, Mark Lee
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1256-763X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright167163184058561

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2022, Master of Science (MS), Wright State University, Computer Science.
Education about implicit bias in clinical settings is essential for improving the quality of healthcare for underrepresented groups. Such a learning experience can be delivered in the form of a serious game simulation. WrightLIFE (Lifelike Immersion for Equity) is a project that combines two serious game simulations, with each addressing the group that faces implicit bias. These groups are individuals that identify as LGBTQIA+ and people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project presents healthcare providers with a training tool that puts them in the roles of the patient and a medical specialist and immerses them in social and clinical settings. WrightLIFE games are distributed on both mobile and desktop devices and go through the entire cycle of providing healthcare professionals with experiential learning, which starts with defining the goals of the simulation and ends with collecting feedback. In this thesis work, cross-platform software frameworks like the Unity Engine have been used to develop survey scenes to comprehensively document users’ pre- and post-simulation experience and attitudes towards implicit bias. Life course scenes were designed to convey an enhanced user experience that bridges the socio-technical gap between the real and virtual worlds. By applying existing user-experience design methodologies to design the survey scenes and life course scenes, it was possible to create an immersive experiential-learning assessment tool that has the potential to deliver data-driven and targeted learning.
Ashutosh Shivakumar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Yong Pei, Ph.D. (Committee Co-Chair)
Paul J. Hershberger, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Thomas Wischgoll, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
74 p.
Computer Engineering; Computer Science
Social Determinants of Health; Serious Games; Mobile Applications; User Experience Design; Unity Engine; Form Validation; C#; Scripting; Reducing Bias; Eliminating Bias in Healthcare Setting; UX for Bias Elimination; Graphic Design; Unity Interface; Unity Scene Creation; Cross-Platform Design;

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  • Alow, M. L. (2022). Development of Enhanced User Interaction and User Experience for Supporting Serious Role-Playing Games in a Healthcare Setting [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright167163184058561

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Alow, Mark. Development of Enhanced User Interaction and User Experience for Supporting Serious Role-Playing Games in a Healthcare Setting. 2022. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright167163184058561.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Alow, Mark. "Development of Enhanced User Interaction and User Experience for Supporting Serious Role-Playing Games in a Healthcare Setting." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright167163184058561

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